What about Browny Downys love toys!!!

Hello, I am 15 yrs old from England. These Downs dolls are so offensive. What'll happen next? Dolls with cerebal palsy or other disabilities. This really p****s me off. The disability is not who the person is.. GOD people get this into your thick American skulls. My sister is eight and beautiful and just happens to have downs syndrome. You people will probably have never come into proper contact with a child with a disability and if you have then you have no decency or conscience. You should be ashamed of yourselves. If I were American I'd sue!!

So... they're saying "don't steal our images"? What's wrong with that?...

I think one of the main purposes for dolls and stuffed animals is to let kids care for and protect something that, without them, would be unable to look after itself. They give kids the chance to replicate yet another grownup activity - love of something smaller. Whether a doll or stuffed animal completely resembles the child or any owner is irrelevant. A stuffed tiger needn't appear to have Down's Syndrome to appeal to a Down's Syndrome person. It only needs to be what it is, something that's helpless without its caregiver. But, hey, if it works better, wtf? A teddy bear with a penis - I suppose there's already a market for that and it's not kids.

Yes, but would I want to pay two hundred dollars for a doll that looked like me? At prices that high, the enterprise seems more exploitive than enlightened to me...

It's a shame the siteowners feel so threatened by people linking there "for the wrong reasons." I'm sure it's true that they're getting traffic from people looking for a freak show, (or more innocently, just out of curiosity) but all of those people who come there for the wrong reasons at least have the opportunity to be exposed to it and think about it. If I had Down's Syndrome, would I want a doll that looked like me? I have no @#$%ing idea, but at least I've now thought about it. I never would have otherwise.

If you buy your own Full o'Guts bear, and take your own pictures of its sucking chest wound, can you post THEM on the web?

Wow, what a sucktacular linkage policy. Though I can understand not wanting people to link to the images alone, rather than the site itself, but that's more of an etiquette thing rather than a We Will Sue You thing. Or at least it should be.